The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-02
OLIVE LOGAN VISITS OUR MARY"
Her Beautiful Home at Hampstead Hill
Some New Costumes,

Her Beautiful Home at Hampstead Hill
Some New Costumes.
LONDON, Oct. IL have been visiting
Mary Anderson at her beautiful home called
ed Mount Waltham, situated on Hampstead
Hill. The house is n large square building
of the Queen Anne order, highly ornamented
on all sides. and standing in a beautiful
wide-spreading garden, wherein fine trees,
velvet lawn and gay parterres
of flowers do much to delight
the eye OF the beholder Hampstead is one
of London's highest suburbs, and when the
beauteous Mary opens the lattice of her
virgin chamber she sees spread beneath her
Craze the magnificent bird 's-eye view of the
great metropolis, serried, seething, shrouded
in its own smoke, while her abode is sur
rounded by an atmosphere comparatively
blue. She says she is exceedingly impress
sionable to the deleterious effects of bad air,
and for this reason prefers to undergo the
additional fatigue of a long drive home
from the theatre after the performance to
taking up her residence within the radius
where is hudd,ed the maiding crowd
Mount Waltham was built by Pussy, r. A. ,
for his own OCCUPANCY. and is just the house
we can fancy Il rich artist erecting for HIM
self when fame, fashion, fortune had made
it possible for mm to Indulge himself with
an ideal home. The entrance hall is large
square room, with no ceiling nearer than
the roof, carved staircase conducting
from it, leading to balconies on the stories
above. Such an apartment in house is
like lungs in the human frame, giving air
and vitality to the whole structure, Miss
Anderson has placed a concert grand piano
in one corner of this hall, and she says that
when her musical friends come there and
pay, the effect is indescribably grand
Drawing rooms, dining room, study and
library open on to this central hall on this
grand floor, and all have doors leading out
to the garden, while to the dining room is
attached a spacious conservatory. The
rooms are furnished with comfort and a
sort of simple elegance betitting house,
which may be called a country house,
although so near 10 London's busy
streets.
found Miss Anderson looking if possible
more beautiful than ever. She was attired
in picturesque frock of mignonette colored
silk, with front OF orange cream satin, en-
tirely covered with white lace drapery.
hanging full from the throat and gathered
in at the waist with mignonette ribbons.
She is delighted with her Scottish successes
with the Winters Tale and hopes to re-
peat them in London. She showed me a
deep purple silk mantle which she will wear
in this piece. 1t was dyed to order, and
twenty-five women have been three contin-
uouS weeks embr ldering it in gold after a
design by Alma 1adema. Miss Anderson
will also wear a replica of Helen of Troy's
necklace copied from DR. Schliemann' IS
original in the South Kersington museum.
Mr. Parsons, the Psychologist, has pre-
sented her with some beads found on the
mummy of a lady of rank who 1lourished
some three thousands years ago These also
will be worn by Miss Anderson in the
Winters Tale
This lovely countrywoman of ours is a
most interesting and fascinating converse
tionalist. Speaking OF acting she said she
would play no parts of the kind which
send an audience home with a bad taste in
its mouth. Speaking of the depression and
self-dissatisfaction which come occasionally
to all, she said she knew Of only one sustain
ing power-that of religion, which, contin-
uously pursued from childhood up she knew
to be an unfailing solace in every human
grief. OLIVE LOGAN.